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Smuggling by tunnel turns legitimate in Gaza Strip
Associated PressGaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network. The once...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Health and Safety at Work, Terrorism, Employees, Organized Crime
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Philadelphia landmark regains its luster
The Associated PressMemorial Hall, one of the jewels of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, had lost its luster many years ago. Rain poured inside through this magnificent but neglected glass dome, soaking elaborate plasterwork and pooling on its marble floors, where buckets...Tags: Ulysses S Grant, American Revolutionary War, Agricultural Research and Technology, Metal and Mineral, Ceremonies
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Decades later, lead still lingers at Island Trees school
eden.laikin@newsday.comThe ongoing saga in Levittown about lead contamination at the former rifle range at Island Trees High School began down the road in another district where the problem was almost identical, but the resolution dramatically different. In 1999, Lynbrook...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Censorship, Healthcare Policies, Environmental Pollution, Fines
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Getting concrete results
Richmond Times-DispatchThe economy may have slowed, but a plant in Dinwiddie County that turns out at least 40 pieces of 45,000-pound precast concrete a day, mostly for parking decks, is expanding. Tindall Corp. is investing $12 million in an expansion that is expected to add...Tags: Marketing, Plant Openings, Metal and Mineral, Employees, University of Virginia
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Builders Sell Energy Self-Sufficiency
Special To The CourantOnce, the formula for constructing houses was simple for Ron Gaudet and his father: Find and clear a lot, set the foundation and framing, put on a roof — and presto, they were well on their way to completing a new house. Inside, plumbing and...Tags: Plant Openings, Energy Saving, Farms, Real Estate Buyers, Middletown
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Discoveries
Nature's Beloved Son
Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy
Bonnie J. Gisel with images by Stephen J. Joseph
Heyday Books: 248 pp., $45
SCOTLAND, Wisconsin, Canada, Kentucky, Florida, Alaska and the Sierra Nevada; wherever he went, John Muir,...Tags: John Muir, Poetry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Folk Music, Culture
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Mixed-use Ravenswood building opens up a new apartment avenue
Special to the Chicago TribuneRepurposing can save functional and well-constructed properties from the wrecking ball. A building at 4500 N. Winchester Ave. in Ravenswood is a case in point. Designed in 1968 as a residence for nurses working at the Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center,...Tags: Montrose, Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, Ravenswood, Metal and Mineral
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Much-altered Colonial still subject to change
In the winter of 2003, Kirk Bauer bought an old mill house in Howard County's historic Ellicott City. His intention was to rehab the property (as he had done with four other houses) and then sell it. The work went smoothly until April 2005. "At that...Tags: Williamsburg, Metal and Mineral, Catonsville, Land Price, Ellicott City
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Will a 'good Samaritan' be good again?
Sentinel ColumnistDear Greg: We had some minor water damage from a second-story window leaking during Tropical Storm Fay in August. We contacted William Benjamin, who advertises as a "licensed" handyman, and asked for an estimate to caulk the window. He did his inspection...Tags: Alec Baldwin, House and Home, Tropical Storms, Mount Dora, Metal and Mineral
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Hudson rail bridge will be high-altitude walkway
Associated Press WriterThe Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge was a high-spanned marvel in its day, carrying everything from coal to trolley riders over the Hudson River. Then a fire in 1974 reduced the bridge to an Industrial-Age eyesore looming over the city. Locals talked...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Heavy Engineering, Railway Transportation, Henry Hudson, Tourism and Leisure
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
Times Architecture CriticTHE NEW Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at Santa Monica College, which will open officially tonight with a program featuring the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, is a happily, even confidently unresolved piece of architecture. Rather than try to smooth...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Walt Disney, Dustin Hoffman, Metal and Mineral, Architecture
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Material recycled from Tiger Stadium demolition could turn up in new autos, parking lots
Associated Press WriterDETROIT (AP) _ Going to a baseball game in Detroit used to mean heading to Michigan and Trumbull, the intersection that became shorthand for Tiger Stadium. Go there today, and all that remains is a small slice of the arena that once drew throngs of fans...Tags: Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Metal, Ford Motor Co., Ty Cobb
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